Kathleen Edwards

Over the past 10 years, veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has built a reputation as the country-rocker with the sharp, defiant voice who wrote with equal passion about old pink radios and lovers with huge egos. Then she and her husband divorced, she moved to a new city and started a new relationship with Justin Vernon, the indie-rock hero who fronts the band Bon Iver. Soon she became depressed, and she channeled every one of those emotions into her most complicated album, "Voyageur." "I went from being married to not married, and moving to Toronto and being with somebody new and the whole rainbow of life experiences, and I don't think I realized I put them all into this record," says Edwards, 34, by phone from a tour stop in Minneapolis. "When it was done, I think it was the first time I exhaled. And I just felt really sad and really alone and really vulnerable."Read the full Kathleen Edwards interview 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave.; $20; 773-929-1322 or etix.com

Over the past 10 years, veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has built a reputation as the country-rocker with the sharp, defiant voice who wrote with equal passion about old pink radios and lovers with huge egos. Then she and her husband divorced, she moved to a new city and started a new relationship with Justin Vernon, the indie-rock hero who fronts the band Bon Iver. Soon she became depressed, and she channeled every one of those emotions into her most complicated album, "Voyageur." "I went from being married to not married, and moving to Toronto and being with somebody new and the whole rainbow of life experiences, and I don't think I realized I put them all into this record," says Edwards, 34, by phone from a tour stop in Minneapolis. "When it was done, I think it was the first time I exhaled. And I just felt really sad and really alone and really vulnerable."Read the full Kathleen Edwards interview 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave.; $20; 773-929-1322 or etix.com

Over the past 10 years, veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has built a reputation as the country-rocker with the sharp, defiant voice who wrote with equal passion about old pink radios and lovers with huge egos. Then she and her husband divorced, she moved to a new city and started a new relationship with Justin Vernon, the indie-rock hero who fronts the band Bon Iver. Soon she became depressed, and she channeled every one of those emotions into her most complicated album, "Voyageur." "I went from being married to not married, and moving to Toronto and being with somebody new and the whole rainbow of life experiences, and I don't think I realized I put them all into this record," says Edwards, 34, by phone from a tour stop in Minneapolis. "When it was done, I think it was the first time I exhaled. And I just felt really sad and really alone and really vulnerable."Read the full Kathleen Edwards interview 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave.; $20; 773-929-1322 or etix.com